Well, as this seems to be a time for me to try new stuff, ---- like smugglers 2, I thought I'd give Kingdom of Loathing another serious go, sinse I know a lot of people have had fun with iit and the humer was amusing. Despite my fondness for squeeze boxes (as I play one), I resisted the urge to play as an accordian thief, and go for a good solid seal clubber instead.
I can now see why Jayde said the thief was the hardest character class, ---- I'm only on my second day and I'm already level four and going through the rats quest. I love the way they've finally! added lables to all those wrotten immages, ---- it's really nice not to have to guess at what locations are from some really complex javascript link url, and it doesn't half speed things up. Hopefully this time I'll have the chance to see what this assention stuff is all about and maybe play a bit more seriously, ---- at least I won't be pvp'ed into submittion as I was on muelsfell, thanks to the hippy stone.
Right now though, my biggest irritation is lack of adventures! I really want to play the game, but there just aren't enough advs around, ---- imho they should do something like gothador did and give more advs to people who donate to the game.
I know eating and drinking can get you more advs, ---- but you can only drink and eat so much, and getting the higher level decent quality consumables seems quite a task, ---- especially as you need an eZ bake oven and a cocktale kit before you can even start experimenting with recipes, ----- or checking the wiki for them of course.
I could buy them from other players of course, but A, I'd really rather make my own, and B, I'm trying to save all my meet to buy seal clubbing skills anyway.
I'm also interested to see what happens with the hole familiars thing. I've got my mosquito, ---- but I never managed to discover any more of them, even when i played an accordian thief to level 6 (though I'm thinking I'm going to be getting to seal clubber level 6 much sooner).
Btw, is there any point me looking into clans as I'm not into pvp? I know in Logd clans could stil be really handy, ---- but then again Logd had forced pvp anyway.
Oh, and to anticipate people's questions, Kingdom of Loathing, or KoL, is a highly surreal, rather fun, but strangely complex free online brouser based game (audio games.net page pending as and when I have the time to write it). You can find the game at http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)